
“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
Source: Native Son (1940), p. viii
“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
“Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage: for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.”
Humanam impotentiam in moderandis et coercendis affectibus servitutem voco; homo enim affectibus obnoxius sui juris non est sed fortunæ in cujus potestate ita est ut sæpe coactus sit quanquam meliora sibi videat, deteriora tamen sequi.
Part IV, Preface; translation by R. H. M. Elwes
Ethics (1677)
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 26
The Book of Adler, by Søren Kierkegaard, Hong 1998 p. 117
1840s, The Book on Adler (1846-1847)
Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 13
4 Burr. Part IV., 2379.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)
On being informed that Faulkner had said that Hemingway "had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary." Pt. 1, Ch. 4
Papa Hemingway (1966)
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis